Minecraft Halloween Skins Rake in over $500,000 for Charity

We love Minecraft for lots of reasons. It encourages creativity, shows how successful indie games can become, and has an enthusiastic and interactive community of players.

It also doesn’t hurt that the crafting game’s Halloween Skin Pack just raised over half a million dollars for charity.

100 percent of the profits from the festive skin pack will be donated to charities chosen by Mojang, Microsoft Studios, and developer 4J Studios. Some the charities are familiar names, including; Child’s Play, Macmillan Cancer Support, and Block by Block.

The latest count brought the total amount raised over $500,000 and there are still two more weeks of the promotion to go.

The Halloween themed pack is still available through Xbox Live Marketplace until Nov. 26. It costs an inexpensive 160 Microsoft Points, which comes out to around $2.

The pack of 55 skins, available exclusive for the Xbox 360 version of the game, are all based on movie monsters and other spooky legends.